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Aerothermal testing of woven tps ablative materials
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Stackpoole, Mairead Venkatapathy, Ethiraj Olson, Michael Feldman, Jay |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | Woven Thermal Protection Systems (WTPS) is a new TPS concept that is funded by NASAs Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) Game Changing Division. The WTPS project demonstrates the potential for manufacturing a variety of TPS materials capable of wide ranging performances demanded by a spectrum of solar system exploration missions. Currently, missions anticipated to encounter heat fluxes in the range of 1500 4000 Watts per square centimeter are limited to using one proven material fully dense Carbon Phenolic. However, fully dense carbon phenolic is only mass efficient at heat fluxes greater than 4000 Watts per square centimeter, and current mission designs suffer this mass inefficiency for lack of an alternative mid-density TPS. WTPS not only bridges this gap but also offers a replacement for carbon phenolic, which itself requires a significant and costly redevelopment effort to re-establish its capability for use in the high heat flux missions recently prioritized in the NRC Decadal survey, including probe missions to Venus, Saturn and Neptune. This poster will summarize some recent arc jet testing to evaluate the performance of WTPS. Both mid density and fully dense WTPS test results will be presented and results compared to heritage carbon phenolic where applicable. |
| File Size | 15351 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120013425 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3130vz6r |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-06-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Nonmetallic Materials Saturn Planet Venus Planet Thermal Protection Neptune Planet Carbon-phenolic Composites Ablative Materials Heat Flux Aerothermodynamics Woven Composites Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |